Wonderful human figures and deformed animals, Anonymous, 1665 - 1667 print Two pasted prints with wonderful human figures and deformed animals. On the left a man with an elephant head and deformed man (fig. VIII-ixi). Nummered at the top left: 36. Right four deformed animals (fig. III-VII). Up to the top left: 37. On a smaller format sheet of paper. Part of the seventh album with drawings of reptiles, amphibians and natural history ensembles. The seventh of twelve albums with watercolors of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanation in Dutc
Wonderful human figures and deformed animals, Anonymous, 1665 - 1667 print Two pasted prints with wonderful human figures and deformed animals. On the left a man with an elephant head and deformed man (fig. VIII-ixi). Nummered at the top left: 36. Right four deformed animals (fig. III-VII). Up to the top left: 37. On a smaller format sheet of paper. Part of the seventh album with drawings of reptiles, amphibians and natural history ensembles. The seventh of twelve albums with watercolors of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanation in Dutch, Latin and French. paper engraving monsters of mixed human and animal shape; 'Mostri' (Ripa). monsters with parts in greater number than normal
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